Lena LANSKIKH
Лена ЛАНСКИХ
Lena LANSKIKH
Russia, 2021, 95mn 
fiction
Nichya
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Ничья

 

 Unwanted

 À personne

 
Directed by : Lena LANSKIKH (Лена ЛАНСКИХ)
Writing credits : Lena LANSKIKH (Лена ЛАНСКИХ), Yekaterina PERFILOVA (Екатерина ПЕРФИЛОВА)
 
Cast
Anastasia STRUKOVA (Анастасия СТРУКОВА) ...Vika
Olga MALAKHOVA (Ольга МАЛАХОВА) ...Vika’s mother
Tatyana TIKHMENIOVA (Татьяна ТИХМЕНЕВА) ...Sveta
Vladimir SHABELNIKOV (Владимир ШАБЕЛЬНИКОВ) ...Vika’s father
 
Cinematography : Mikhail VEYTSENFELD (Михаил ВЕЙЦЕНФЕЛЬД)
Produced by : Natalya DROZD (Наталья ДРОЗД), Sergey SELIANOV (Сергей СЕЛЬЯНОВ)
 

Awards :
Discovery of the year San Sebastian International Film Festival, San Sebastian (Spain), 2021

Plot synopsis
Fourteen-year-old Vika lives in a small provincial town in Russia’s Ural region. She picks wild berries that grow on the wetlands and helps her mom sell them in the street market. She enjoys her choreography classes at school. And she has a baby that nobody must ever know about.
 

commentaries
Elena Lanskikh: Unwanted (Nich'ia, 2021), Christine ENGEL, Kinokultura, 2020
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival : PÖFF, Tallinn (Estonia), 2021
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2021
- San Sebastian International Film Festival, San Sebastian (Spain), 2021